You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
From Steve Jobs' organs to Microsoft's new OS, 2009 was a year of renewal. Over the past 12 months, Facebook emerged as the 900-pound gorilla of social networks, while Twitter grew from a geeky curiosity to a global sensation -- despite the continuing lack of a viable business plan. Windows 7 finally put Vista in our rearview mirrors, while Bing tried to erase the memory of Windows Live Search. Apple successfully fought off an attack of the clones and dominated the mobile Internet -- despite the AT&T albatross wrapped around its neck. In short, it was quite a year for tech.
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State of SOA pondered again
Debate over the status of SOA continues to rage, with panelists at a Silicon Valley software conference Monday evening pondering the topic.
Representatives from software designer iDesign, author and consultant Christian Gross, and author and teacher David Platt covered the fate of SOA in a session entitled, "Is SOA Dead?" at the SD West conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Arbor Networks bolsters Internet monitoring system
Network security vendor Arbor Networks is collaborating with more than 100 ISPs worldwide to create a more comprehensive Internet monitoring system.
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Microsoft cuts software leasing costs to retain companies
In an attempt to retain recession-hit companies seeking to opt out of their software maintenance contracts, Microsoft is wooing them by cutting the price of leasing software by as much as 26 percent.
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Microsoft devising Office for netbooks
Microsoft is bending its Office franchise toward netbooks and developing packages that are unique to that market, according to the head of the company's business division.
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Move over e-mail, here come 'Pixetells'
A Portland, Ore., startup called Ontier is set on Monday to unveil Pixetell, communication software that combines text, video, images, and audio in a single message.
Regular e-mail, especially for complicated discussions, can be tedious, with many messages going back and forth before a problem gets solved, said CEO Sebastian Rapport, who will demonstrate Pixetell at the DEMO conference in Palm Desert, Calif.
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Nokia considers developing its own laptop
Will the laptop and smartphone converge in the future? Nokia is lending more credence to that idea, with the company's comments yesterday that it may develop its own laptop. In an interview with Finnish broadcaster YLE, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said his company was "looking very actively" at the laptop market.
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Software appliances big opportunity for Linux, Novell says
The modularity and licensing of Linux makes it well suited as the platform of choice for the burgeoning software appliance market, a Novell executive said at the VMworld conference in Cannes.
Software appliances are applications that come prepackaged with an operating system on, for example, a virtual machine or a USB stick.
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Hackers: Ideology trumps profit when it comes to Web site attacks
A study of 57 Web site hacks from last year showed that 24 percent were aimed at defacing a site rather than financial gain.
The figures from the latest Web Hacking Incidents Database Annual Report suggest that stealing money and data is not always the overriding motivation for hackers, although it has been a rising trend in recent years.
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Safari 4 rivals Google Chrome in JavaScript race
Contrary to Apple's claims, the newest version of Safari is not the world's fastest browser, benchmark scores show. But it is dramatically faster than rivals being built by Mozilla and Microsoft.
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Microsoft demos innovations at annual TechFest
If you've ever been frustrated with trying to determine who is speaking when listening to a conference call, help may be at hand.
At the annual TechFest event, Microsoft researchers showed off technology that can make it easier to notice when different like-sounding speakers are talking.
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Seagate sees datacenter power, SSDs as future priorities
Disk drive maker Seagate is working on solving the issue of power consumption in the datacenter, the company's CEO said in an interview with InfoWorld. While short on specific details, CEO Stephen Luczo said the company believes it has a competitive advantage with the issue. "There are architectural items that we’re working on there," Luczo said.
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Test your Web IQ
The World Wide Web has had the greatest impact on our lives of any technology since the personal computer itself. But Web 2.0 didn't happen overnight -- the history of this radical medium spans 17 years of servers, sites, and software. Think you know all there is to know? Test your Web literacy with this pop quiz packed with tech tips and trivia. But watch out! Some of the answers may not be what you expect.
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